JOMAD

JOMAD: Botanical Figuration, Memory and Contemporary Caribbean Painting

JOMAD is a contemporary artist born in 1987 in Fort-de-France, Martinique. Working across painting, ceramics and public art, she creates richly coloured figurative compositions in which portraiture, botanical forms and symbolic environments come together to explore memory, identity, intimacy and emotional transformation.

Her practice belongs to a broader conversation within contemporary African and diasporic art, where figuration becomes a way to rethink heritage, visibility and inner life. In JOMAD’s work, flowers, bodies and architectural space are not separate elements. They form immersive pictorial worlds where identity is shaped by memory, beauty, protection and transformation.

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Figures, Flowers and Emotional Architecture

JOMAD’s paintings are immediately recognisable for their saturated colour, dense floral environments and carefully constructed compositions. Human figures often appear surrounded, sheltered or absorbed by oversized blossoms and rhythmic botanical forms. These flowers are not decorative additions; they act as emotional and symbolic structures within the painting.

Her images create spaces that feel both intimate and expansive. Figures seem to inhabit gardens of memory, where colour and form become carriers of feeling. Through this fusion of body and environment, JOMAD explores tenderness, protection, interiority and the quiet complexity of lived experience.

Composition, Repetition and Spatial Balance

JOMAD’s visual language is shaped by a strong sense of structure. Her earlier training in architecture and spatial design can be felt in the way she organises colour, rhythm and volume across the surface. Even when the paintings appear lush and spontaneous, they are held together by a precise attention to balance, repetition and spatial construction.

This formal clarity gives her work its particular force. Botanical forms, patterned surfaces, figures and backgrounds are arranged as interdependent elements, creating compositions that move between figuration and abstraction. The result is a painting practice that is sensual, structured and emotionally charged.

From Mural Practice to Ceramics and Painting

Alongside her studio paintings, JOMAD has developed a significant public and mural practice, with projects in France, Spain, Guadeloupe, the United Kingdom, Germany, Hawaii and the United States. This experience in public space informs the scale, movement and graphic clarity of her work, even when she works on canvas or ceramic.

Her ceramic works extend her visual language into objects and surfaces, creating a dialogue between image, memory and use. Whether in painting, mural work or ceramics, JOMAD remains attentive to how images inhabit space and how colour can transform perception, atmosphere and emotional experience.

Caribbean Memory and Contemporary Diasporic Identity

JOMAD’s work is rooted in a Caribbean sensibility while engaging broader questions of diaspora, identity and belonging. Her figures do not simply appear within decorative settings; they are held within environments that suggest memory, inheritance and psychological space.

Through colour, gesture and botanical symbolism, she creates images where personal narratives become open and collective. Her paintings invite viewers into spaces of reflection, where beauty is not superficial but deeply connected to resilience, self-recognition and emotional depth.

Selected Exhibitions, Residencies and Public Projects

JOMAD’s recent exhibitions include Inner Gardens, a two-person exhibition with Tiffany Alfonseca at OOA Gallery; La Vie en Rose, a two-person exhibition with Franklin Mbungu at OOA Gallery; and Parade, a solo exhibition at OBRA Gallery in Paris.

Her work has also been presented in exhibitions including The Grass is Singing at BKhz Gallery, Johannesburg; On View at UNREPD Gallery, Los Angeles; LUNE DE MIEL in Paris; Already Home at Galerie 59 Rivoli, Paris; and group exhibitions in Paris, Barcelona, France and beyond. Her public and mural projects include interventions at Lanikai Beach, Oahu; Brooklyn, New York; MX Arts Tour in France; Kronos Festival in Barcelona; Street Art’Magnac Festival; Femme Fierce Festival in the United Kingdom; and mural performances in Guadeloupe and Berlin.

JOMAD has participated in residencies including L’Empreinte Résidence Artistique in Cayenne, Atelier Le Préavis, 59 Rivoli in Paris and the Skopelos Art Foundation in Greece. Her work has also been featured in Figures de Graffeuses, published by Gallimard.

Available Works

Explore a selection of available works by JOMAD at OOA Gallery, including paintings and ceramic works that explore botanical figuration, memory, colour, Caribbean identity and emotional transformation.